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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
REsELLlous BEASTS.
Philosopher Arp Tells of His Tribulationi
and How He Lost Confidence In Cows.

Philosopher Arp Tells of His Trfbulations,
and How He Lost Confidence In Cows.
I turned the cows out, and as old
Bess was little slow in going just
caught her by the tail and gave her q
switch with it to hurry her up a little.
I've been feeding old Bess off and on
for five years, and thought that she
honored me and respected me, but sud-
denly, in the twinkling of an eye and
with malice aforethought, she rails
ed her hind leg and let fly at me with all
her might. She hit me on the shin
bone, and you might have heard the
collision for fifty yards. Ithurt so bad
1 let go her tail prematurely and hol-
Tered. 1t was cowardly act of hers,
but nevertheless I shall hereafter let
those cows tails alone. I thought from
the report that the bone was broken,
and took on powerful and let Carl
help me all the way to the house, but
when examined found the bone all
right and only the epiderrnic cuticle
abraded. I've lost confidence in COWS.
They have no gratitude and no emotions
of an exalted character. They are not
fit for pets. A horse belongs to the
nobility, but cow is a scrub. She has
about as much affection as mule. She
is machine to manufacture milk, and
that is all.
Nevertheless, never like to sell my
cattle to the butcher. never kill one
for my own use, and never want to
eat beef-steak that comes from one of
my own raising. Now hogs are very
different. have no lingering affection
for a live hog. can see fat one
killed with perfect indifference. 1t is
his nature to be killed. He had just as
| lief be killed as not. There is no at
traction about him; no beauty or come
illness, no traits of character, but after
| he is dead and dressed and dissected
there is a greater variety of good
things about him than about any other
animal. There is backbone and spare
rib and sausage and hogs feet and
hogs head and brains and jowls and
turnip-greens and souse and lard and
cracklin- bread and middling and ham
and shoulder, and they are all good
and vet all different in taste and salts
faction.
Well, the other morning went down
to feed the hogs, and as was throw
ing the corn over in the pen the old
cotswo,d ram jumped in to divide the
breakfast. and as he was butting the
hogs around lively I picked up little
stick and climbed over the low fence to
chastise him and make him depart thost
coasts. 1 had some little hesitation
about this business, and proceeded
slowly and shook the stick at him. HI
just stepped backward a little ant
bowed his neck and doubled up hi
fore feet and made a lunge at me, ane
would have knocked me clean over th'
fence but I was over before he got t.
me. 1 was as mad as Julius Cesar
and grabbed up fence rail and stoot
outside and punched him until HI
jumped out where he jumped in.
The good book says that man shal
have domin on over the beasts of tn
field, but it looks like mine are in
state of rebellion, and are trying u
have dominion over me.-Atla'sta Con
| stitsItion.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
FEATHEReD PROPHETS.

Peculiar Notes Foretelling Rain Sounded
by Certain Species of Birds.
Quite a number of birds announce
the coming of rain; for instance, the
magpie, the owl, the yellow thrush and
the greenfnch. This is also done by
means of peculiar notes which they
never sound on other occasions. Mic
olardot has essayed to reproduce these
notes by letters. There are also storm
birds, so-called procellaria, which in a
similar manner-that is to say, by the
use of certain peculiar sounds-predict
the coming of a storm, even a long
time in advance. Birds thus can feel
and announce the coming of rain and
storm; and the ancients ascribed to
them the faculty of prediction. In
their flight and in their voices indica-
tions of coming events were sought.
The augurs of old had established a
whole science of the fight and the
voices of birds. Nor is it improbable
that training was resorted to, to aid in
procuring such predictions-that is to
say, to create favorable or unfavorable
omens, whichever might happen to
best suit the plans of the priests
at the time. Louis Napoleon, in
our nineteenth century, intended to
convince the French people, by
the aid of trained eagle which was to
have alighted on his head at the right
moment, that he was the predestined
successor of his great uncle. Nicolardot
does not go quite SO far as the augurs
of the ancients, but he also ascribes to
birds a prescience of coming events, es.
pecially of approaching misfortune, to
which feeling they lend expression by
certain peculiar sounds. As an example
he cites tale from O'Meara's "Voice
from St. Helena" When the French
entered Moscow, this author relates a
great flock of ravens came and settled
on the towers of the Kremlin. From
there these birds, to which the ancients
asbribed great sagacity, came flying
down close to the heads of the soldiers
tapped their wings, and kept up a con
tinuous croaking. The troops were
much disheartened by this occurrence
and feared misfortune. Shortly before
the terrible confiagration broke out al
the ravens had disappeared, flying
away in great numbers.-Ueber Lamt
and Nicer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

ALI hail the new South. We
have no doubt of its coming prosperity.
nor of the credit due to its own brave
people of both colors. If they need
capital and fresh blood it is due main
ly to their misfortunes, which they have
bravely struggled to overcome.-Des
Moines Leader
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

"A woman will tell her friend that
her bonnet doesn't fit, that her new
dress wants taking in the waist. or let
ting out in the hustle, or something
like that, but no woman will ever tell
even her bitterest enemy that her baby
is anything but absolutely perfection.
San francisco Chronicle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

was consumed by the second night. From
then until February Is, when they were
picked up at Sc, by the steamer Empire,
the men had no food, and got water but
once, when it rained. They were in sadly
'emaciated condition.
Nathan Eckelberry, convicted at Toledo,
O., of the murder Of Lewis Leidy last
spring, was on the 10th sentenced to the
penitentiary for ninety-nine years.
The snow blockade on the Central Pacific
continued on the 10th. No mails had been
received at San Francisco from the East
for three days.
William Ellison, book-keeper for Hibbard
& Co., Chicago Board of Trade brokers, is
said to be missing and short in his accounts
for about g, 900, supposed % have been lost
in speculation.
Near Navidad, Tex, on the 10th James
Richards, q negro prisoner in charge OF
Deputy Sheriff Upchurch, suddenly seized
the latter's revolver and shot him dead. The
next evening band Of seventy-five masked
men took Richards from the custody Of the
guards and hung him to a neighboring tree.
The residence Of the parents Of State
O., was destroyed by fire on the 18th. They
were over eighty years old and lived alone.
The body of the old gentleman was taken
from the ruins, and his wife was SO badly
burned that she can not recover.
The grand jury at St. Louis, Mo-, has in
dicted number Of judges and clerks Of
election Of that city for frauds committed
at the November election, and some fifty
arrests have been made.
The Des Moines Qa.) Board Of Health ar
rested and quarantined q clergyman who
conducted the funeral services Of children
who died from diphtheria, contrary to regu-
lations prohibiting public funerals in such
cases. He appealed to the State Board Of
Health, which has affirmed the action Of the
local board.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road Company has equipped two passenger
trains between Chicago and Milwaukee
with apparatus for heating by steam from
the locomotive. The company is also build
ing an iron heating car to carry a boiler for
generating steam for heating the train and
to run next the engine.
At Wheeling, W. Va, on the 18th John
Wagner drove team Of hof fses into the
river for the purpose Of washing of his
wagon. The water being deep, the animals
lost their balance and the horses and driver
were drowned.
A. ]. Howard, warden of the Southern
Indiana Penitentiary at Jeffersonville, re-
signed on the 18th. A legislative investi-
eating committee has unearthed a shortage
Of between $4,000 and $4,000 in his ac-
counts, besides the fact that he has obtained
large sums Of money from convicts on repre-
sentations that he would secure them par
don. Howard has been warden Of the peni-
tentiary eleven years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

which to erect the superstructure d
mendacity that he had called tho
President to account. Newspapers
have created an opinion for themselves
in the minds of the President and the
Senator by that performance.-Georcs
Hope, in BrooElyn Eagle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

An English alliterative triumph is
the following line, composed by lady
in the year 1900 on the occasion OF q
gentleman of the name of Lee planting
a lane with lilacs:
Let lovely lilacs line Lees lonely lane!
In which not only every word, but
every syllable, commences with tho
same letter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
THE last.

N. Y, and for many years one OF its lead
ing Democratic citizens, died at st. Angus
tine Fla, on the 10Th.
William McGrath, who was convicted
twice within the past few weeks Of burg
larry, at New York, mainly upon the testi-
mony given by his mother and sister, was
on the 10th sentenced to twenty years in
Sing Sing prison-
Tho coke workers OF the Connellsville
Pa.) region aud the coke syndicate are un-
able to agree on a scale Of wages. The men
demand an advance of twenty per cent The
syndicate offer an advance of five per cent,
the increase to apply to all classes Of labor.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
WAsHiMcToM.

be Chief Signal Oficer, with the rank Of
Brigadier General, to FILL the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death Of General Hazen.
Land Commissioner Sparks will recon-
mend to the Secretary of the Interior at an
early date the restoration to settlement en-
try under the public land laws the $4,000
acres Of land formerly patented to the State
Of Iowa for the Sioux City and st. Paul
Railroad Company, and recently reconveyed
by the State to the United States.
Thus far during February the receipts Of
the Government have averaged about
$1,000,000 per day. The expenditures, how
ever, are unusually great, the pension pay
ments alone being about $21, ,000, 900.
The President has vetoed the bill appro-
priating SIC, 900 for the distribution of seeds
to the droughtstricken counties of Texas.
The first allowance under the recent act
OF Congress pensioning the survivors and
widows Of the Mexican war was made by
the Commissioner Of Pensions to Senator
John 8. Williams, Of Kentucky.
Including the Hale bill passed on the 18th,
the Senate has passed within few days
bills appropriating $48, ,00o, 600 for coast de-
fenses, naval vessels, Notifications, etc.
Through representations made by Con-
gressman Muller, Of New York, the House
Committee on appropriations has agreed
TO appropriating $S2,500 for lighting the
Barthoidi statue.
Presidential nominations sent to the Sen
ate on the 17th: Samuel N. Aldrich, to be
Assistant Treasurer Of the United States at
Boston; John NJ. Mercer, to be Surveyor OF
Customs at Burlington, Ia; Owen Nc
Gloughlin, to be Surveyor Of Customs at
Dubuque, Ia; Arthur Z. Delaney, of Wis
consia, to be Collector Of Customs for the
District Of Alaska; William W. Armstrong
70 be Postmaster at Cleveland, o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24

uoiocfo - 70 DC uelQ IN NOW xOfk OF WaSn1n8-
ton to elect directors. II this II not accom-
plished In two years the charter is to expire by
limitation.) After debate, and q slight amend
ment by Mr.van wyci<, the substitutes Has
passed-yeas 40, nays z, and the Senate ad-
journed.
HousE.LThe Speaker laid before the House
message from the President vetoing the bill
sppropriating $4,000 for o special distribution
OF. seed to the droughtstricken counties of
Texas. An attempt to pass the bill over the
veto was lost by vote Of 100 to 50. The con-
ference report ON the Anti-Mormon bill was
called up and after debate the report was agreed
to-yeas zoe, nays 40. The House then went
into Committee Of the Whole on the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bin Mr.. Belmont
offered q substitute for so much OF the bill as
had not already been agreed to, which was
adopted. CHE present classification is retained
and the proposed increase Of salaries is thus
cut on. The provision is omitted providing for
two inspectors Of consulates and the appropri-
alton for contingent expenses is reduced to
$4,000 from se0o,0Oo) The committee rose and
reported the bill as amended to the House, and
It was passed. The House then adjourned
SENATE, Feb. 19-The presiding of1cer laid
before the Senate resolutions from the Maine
Legislature In regard to trade relations with
Canada. Mr.. Edmunds presented the confer
'ence report on the Utah polygamy bill in the
bills, and after long debate the report was
agreed to-yeas 50, nays 10. The Senate then
proceeded to the consideration OF the River and
Harbor Appropriation bill, which was discussed
until adjournment.
HoUsE-The Senate amendments to the In
valid Pension Appropriation bill were nom
concurred In and a conference ordered. The
House refused to pass the bill granting PEN
sion to Simmons W. Harte over the veto of the
President-yeas 142, nays 96-not the necessary
twoshirds. The House then went into Com
mittee Of the Whole for the further considera-
tion OF the Senate amendments to the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill. OF the 260 amend
ments, 1876 were disposed Of when recess was
taken until evening. At the night session the
House passed twenty-three pension bills and
adjourned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27
Flowers OF Fire.

There have been more ingenuity and
artistic taste developed in designing
fixtures for the electric light during
the last year than half century de.
veloped for all other kinds of lights
together" said the head of one of the
principal electric lighting companies
to a New York Commercial AdUertisey
reporter He was sitting in his office,
one end OF which was completely oc-
cupied by beautiful and novel samples
of electroliers, brackets, and globes in
all.materials, colors and shapes. He
pointed toward this collection as he
went on:
''The best designing talent in this
country and in Europe is being utilized
to turn out just such work as this.
Here's design for bracket in the
shape of branch of rose bush. The
leaves and thorns are perfectly
initiated in brass. The roses are
small colored globes. When YOU turn
the current on the effect is indescrib-
ably beautiful. Similar designs in
lilies, blue bells, and tulips have got
to be comparatively common. The
natural tint of the flower is repro
duced admirably in the glass. Some
times two or three different flowers
are united on the same bush, and the.
owner gets a sort of garden out of his
illumination. Such things are very
costly and are only used for decorative
purposes. We can duplicate any de-
sign that the makers of gascINande,
liers can invent and then / arove
upon it greatly. You see the trio
light will burn in any position We
can have long stems and bougHs, with
the light dropping at the end like
blossom, as you see it there. Or we
can have the lights nesting in vine
running over an old tree, like they are
arranged in $4,000 piece of work
now being made for an English noble
man. That will be a great piece of
work, by the way. Tiny lamps with
fixed in the boughs of the tree to look
like glow worms. There will be an
imitation of moonlight, too, that, it is
thought, will be something remark
able.
For the illumination of bathrooms
something that has the general shape
of the old chandelier is very popular.
1t is much more artistically made how
ever, and is thickly covered with
globes, every one of which has differ
ent tint. The general effect is Of ?
bright, sparkling glow.
''Sconces are now made of ham
mered brass, with jeweled glass in
candescent burners at the side. An
other favorite wall ornament is brass
panel, covered over with litt!e branches,
bearing bright-colored lights The
brass is highly polished, and the effect
of the reflection of the different colors
is very bright and warm"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27
Eir. Tilden's Fancy.

A pretty and distinguishing lady
at the Murray Hill hotel on her way
to Bar Harbor recalls one of the pro-
visions of Mr.. Tilden's will, says the
New York Graphic. She is Miss Ce-
leste Staufier, the New Orleans belle
to whom the gallant old statesman be-
oueathed the neat little sum of $780,
600, and about which provision OF the
will no question seems to have been
raised by any of the contesting heirs.
Whether there was a romance about
the matter or not, the fact is that the
lady, who is both beautiful and ac-
complished, as well as blessed with an
abundance of this worlds goods, has
for the last few years quietly but per-
sistently dropped away from the
suitors that have sought her, and
given her women friends a chance to
ponder and consult over her evident
preference for life of single blessed
ness. She is scarcely % years of age,
one of the best horse-women of her
day, dresses with exquisite taste, is a
charming conversationalist, and one
of the brightest young women III New
Orleans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27

progress in sculpture. l expect she
will be the only sculptures in New
York" That's where YOU are mis-
taken. There are lots of women who
bust their husbands in New York. -
Te1as Sytings.
Omaha invalid-"O, dear, so the
doctor has sent me some more pills y
Husband. Pillsp" s.Yes: didn't he
tell you what they werea I'm sure by
their looks they are blue mass pills,
too. But how big they are. ..Great
Esculapius! Are you talking about
the contents of that boxp sent YOU
that myself. They are not pills, they
are new peaches. Omaha World.
1t has been discovered that the aver
age length of time that the $4,000 a
year clergyman is able to work with
out becoming physical wreck and
having to be sent abroad is seven
months. The $4,000 man can stand
it eight months; he who receives 81
600, nine months; the $1,000 preacher,
ten months-and SO on; but the man
on a $500 salary works right along all
the year round and doesn't break
down. Who can explain thia?-ITd-
BIS.
81 don't see why your friend Miss
Smith referred to my mustache as
down, Maude, " said young Sissy to
his pretty cousin. There is nothing
of the down about it; it quite bristles.
| have to shave twice a week, | assure
you" 81 know it bristles, Charley"
returned the girl, knitting her brows,
although not very fiercely, and L am
as much perplexed as you are to I'M
derstand why Clara should speak of it
as down. Sudden happy thought)
perhaps, Charley, it's because it grows
on IA goose. n-Neap YORK SIZE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27

William Beck says that he and his
family were captured by the Sioux
Indians in 1875, and that ne has not
seen his wife and children since he
was held captive twelve years and
made chief with the title OF Touch
the Clouds, but that does not satisfy
him, and he wants the War Depart
ment to restore his family to him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27
(To be continued
A Capable Nan.
Texas Siftings.

Smith-Do you know a young man
named Tom Beverly?
Jones-I 80.
Smith--W ell, he wants position in my
Office as cashier. Is he a good business
man? Is Incapable?
Jones-Capable? I should say. He is
capable of anything. He was private
secretary of New York alderman for
several years. There is nothing he is
not capable of doing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27

On some of the islands of Pyramid
lake, Nevada, are great numbers of
goats that are about as wild as deer.
A few pairs of the animals were
placed 0 the island in the early days,
and they have not only taken care Of
themselves but also have increased and
multiplied. These are all the ordinary
breed OF goats, but they are fine and
large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27

Two hundred and eighty Mormon con-
verts from Liverpool were landed Tues
day at New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27

This was more than / could stand. By
my bed stood the veldtschoons had been
wearing. Moved quite beyond myself,
took them up and threw them straight at
Goods head-and hit it.
After that | slept the sleep OF the just;
and a very heavy sleep it must be- AS for
Good, | don't know if he went to sleep OF
if he continued to pass Sorais' beauties in
mental review; and, what is more, l don't
care.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-09
TIE WIFE OF HARUN AL-RA Slid.
From The ffhen0uIn.

The most mysterious feature In the tombstone OF the
LADY Zobedya wife OF larun al Rashd, at present dom
iciled in the ghbOrheod OF Baker st Is the date
The stone OF the usual obong shape but rather small
about inches high by - broad and 5covered win ve
lines OF inscription In tho Naskhi character inc wrlhs
Is of more exuous style than would be expected al 80
early a PERIOD but this may be accounted Tor ny PERSIAN
influences The translation Of the inscriptions as folows
"TbIs Is the grave Of the deceased Zobeyda Khatun
daughter of Jafar son Of Abdallah E-Mansur. SON OF
Mohainmed. OF Ali son OF 'Abdaah son OF El'ADOas
who died in the year 100 .-.-.. fusuf
The dots represent pair OF obscure short words writ
tan SIDEWAYS which probably Indicate that the lnscrlp
tion was chiseed by a certaiH Yusuf:
But the curious point is that the lady Zobeyda VINO Is
according TO all the Arabic historians. Till 2l6 AsTsbsr
badly records In this year l2lGl died UmmJafar, that
being the narne by which Zoboyda was commonly known
There Is not the slightest doubt that she outved cf son
ELAulu How, thsn, came sho to have tombstone
decease In 1891 or the genulncpess OF
the stone there be doubt II was brought by Dr.
IIilpern from the actual tomb or mosque OF
Zobeyda at Baghdad interesting building
said to have bsen erected, ms was the fash.
ior OF those timos, by the good Harun al kashd .
in tender for the demise OF his distinguished
spouse and uahappily fallen to such decay that
the removal OF so precious a stone unnsced IL is
nsSsle that tho mason entrusted with the work and
completpg IL year two after Haruns death an 1913,
gnorauty or caroessv inserted the hgurcs 49, win
the recording the date OF completion, not OF
DEATH but that AXE shouldhave occurred IN 'ho
OF such princess estaiey Iobsyda passes
II would be worth while 10 search the
histories for any statements that might throw light upon
the